UNCLE VANYA. Scenes from country life
By Dmitry Krymov | Based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
LA MAMA - ELLEN STEWART THEATRE
2026
Director: Dmitry Krymov | Production Design And Props: Emona Stoykova | Puppet Design: Leah Ogawa | Lighting Design: Krista Smith | Costume Design: Luna Gomberg | Sound Design: Denis Zabiyaka | Technical Director: Calan Britz | Projection Design: Yana Biryukova
Photo credits: S. Pisano, M. Levitskaya, M. Vasilevskaya
“In the extraordinary “Uncle Vanya, scenes from country life,” [...] his production de-signer, Emona Stoykova, gives us a blank white stage, backed by a gleaming white flat covered in a hastily scrawled scene of rural buildings. It’s a scribbled-on, paper landscape, a notebook opened to a page that invites someone, anyone, to rip it out.”
“A desperate scrapbook, a collection of fragments bound together by threads of suffering and complicity [...] A cycle of creation and destruction, mess and coalescence happening in real time.”
“A blankness charged with potential […] less a place than a memory of place. […] A gesture here, an image there—each rendered with a kind of offhand virtuosity.”
